Fretting over Delta’s plans for Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is a popular pastime for Twin Cities worriers, who track every flight shifted elsewhere with pangs of dread. But it turns out that airlines are cutting back all over, and a lot more in some places.

The worst off are the nation’s mid-size airports — places like Cleveland and Kansas City, Mo., where the departures are down 26 percent from their 2007 levels. Larger hubs — MSP is one of those, ranking No. 11 nationally by departures — are down just 9 percent. And Minneapolis even compares well in that field: Its departures fell by only 6.5 percent (just three of the airports larger than it had smaller declines on departures).

MSP’s number of available seats fell by a larger amount — 11.8 percent — which is likely partly the result of Delta shifting its larger Airbus planes away from the market in favor of MD-88s and MD-90s.